# ბოზო
## Georgian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [b̥ozo]
* Hyphenation: ბო‧ზო

### Noun

ბოზო • (bozo)
* vocative singular of ბოზი (bozi)

## Laz
### Etymology

The ultimate origin is uncertain. Closely related to Old Armenian բոզ (boz, “whore”) (likely a Zan borrowing) and Middle Georgian ბოზი (bozi, “whore”) (likely an Armenian reborrowing). According to Javakhishvili, of the same root as Georgian ნე-ზვ-ი (ne-zv-i, “(breeding) sow/ewe/nanny goat”), with the main part being -ზო- (-zo-), meaning he derives it from Proto-Kartvelian *zw- (“to kitten, to fawn”), and ბო- (bo-) being a prefix to denote young age. Compare Georgian ბაღანა (baɣana) for development.
Further compare Old Georgian ნეზჳ (nezwi, “nanny goat”), Adyghe бзы (bzə), Kabardian бзы (bzə), Ubykh -bza, Abkhaz а-пс (a-pʼs, “female (of animals)”).

### Noun

ბოზო • (bozo) (Latin spelling bozo)
* girl
    Synonym: კულანი (ǩulani)

#### Derived terms

* ბოზონა (bozona)
* ბოზობა (bozoba)
* ბოზობური (bozoburi)
* ბოზობიჭი (bozobiç̌i)
* ბოზომოთა (bozomota)
* ბოზონთაბური (bozontaburi)
* ბოზომოთალებური (bozomotaleburi)
* ბოზო ჭუმანი (bozo ç̌umani)

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: bozo

### Further reading

* Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 152
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բոզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 459b
* Čuxua, Merab (2019) “*mazw-/*bazw-”, in Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎, Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 267
* Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. I. Theil. Wörterverzeichniss (in German), Vienna: Alfred Hölder, page 97c
* Gabesḳiria, Šalva (2018) “Šota rustavelis mšobliuri ḳilos saḳitxisatvis „vepxisṭq̇aosnis“ dialekṭizmebis mixedvit [On Shota Rustaveli's native dialect from dialectisms used in "The Knight in the Panther's Skin"]”, in Merab Čuxua, editor, XXXVIII resṗubliḳuri dialekṭologiuri samecniero sesiis masalebi, batumi, 2018 c̣lis 9-10 noemberi (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 20
* Ǯavaxišvili, Ivane (1937) Kartveli eris isṭoriis šesavali. Ṭomi 2. Kartuli da ḳavḳasiuri enebis tavdaṗirveli buneba da natesaoba [Introduction to the history of the Georgian nation. Volume II. The original structure and relations of Caucasian and Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 193–195
* Lomtatiʒe, K. (1961) “Gakvavebul gramaṭiḳul ḳlas-nišanta saḳitxisatvis apxazuri enis saxelis puʒeebši [On the issue of fossilized grammatical class indicators in the stems of the substantives of the Abkhaz language]”, in Bulletin of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences‎ (in Georgian), volume 26, number 1, page 117 of 115–122
* Marr, N. (1910) “ბოზო”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 131a
* Rosen, Georg (1844) Über die Sprache der Lazen, Lemgo und Detmold: Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, pages 32a, 5
* Шагиров, А. К. (1977) “бзы”, in К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, page 96
* Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*c̣_wŏjV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
* Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 56